Lamps for a kitchen open to the living room

Lamps for a kitchen open to the living room - an arrangement challenge!

Kitchen lighting is probably one of the biggest creative challenges when it comes to the interior design of your home. After all, the kitchen must not only be well-lit, so that it is easy to prepare food in it, but it should also exude a friendly, warm atmosphere, so that you can enjoy being in it both during the day and in the evening and at night. If, in addition, you have a kitchen open to the living room, which can be seen from the main living area of the house, the challenge is even greater. Therefore, we have some advice for you and some suggestions for arranging such a space so that it is illuminated both practically and stylishly.

Basic types of kitchen lighting

The lighting of the kitchen, like the lighting of other rooms in your home, should be adapted to the activities performed there, as well as our lifestyle. In terms of performing specific tasks, we can generally divide lighting into three types:

• work light - With regard to the kitchen, it is the lighting responsible for the areas where you prepare food and which require frequent, thorough cleaning. After all, it is difficult to cook and apply food in semi-darkness, and even more difficult to clean the kitchen in the dark. The areas affected by work lighting are, of course, the stove, kitchen countertops, the island, as well as the eyelice of the sink, dishwasher or oven and the table where you eat your meals. In the role of work light, the central lighting of the kitchen works best in the form of pendant lamps or directional spotlights on rails, as well as strong backlighting of countertops (led under-cabinet strips, etc.).).

• accent lighting - is lighting that is designed to highlight elements of interior design, make visible what we want to expose and what we want to draw attention to. In the kitchen they work best in this role wall lamps, directional spots or lighting of kitchen countertops in the form of various types of under-cabinet lamps.

• mood lighting - Lighting that makes the atmosphere and that makes the room friendly to its users and has an inviting aura. Its role in the kitchen is often fulfilled by soft, internal (or external) backlighting of kitchen cabinets, backlighting of display cabinets, warm light of the hood, as well as dimmed (for example, using a dimmer) headlight or specially designed backlighting of the suspended ceiling - neon or LEDs or LED tapes. There is nothing to prevent the atmosphere in the kitchen to build also with wall sconces and table lamps!

When designing kitchen lighting, it is also worth remembering the the layering principle of lighting rooms, according to which the light sources in the room should be at different heights and be arranged in such a way as to illuminate all corners, with the possibility of switching on the lighting of only selected zones and lamps.

Some general tips for lighting your kitchen

There is so much going on in the kitchen! It is often the bustling heart of the home, as well as the place where friends and guests gather. It is the place where you start and end your day, where you prepare and eat your meals, where you talk, pass the time, drink tea and coffee together. It is a place that must be friendly to household members and their guests - both every day and on holidays. Therefore, when planning the lighting of your kitchen (whether open to the living room or traditional), you need to keep in mind some basic principles:

1. Carefully plan all the lighting that will be in your kitchen - work lighting, accent lighting and mood lighting.
2. Consult a lighting design with a specialist electrician to ensure proper installation distribution.
3. Ensure natural lighting for a kitchen that looks great at any time of day
4. Introduce various types of lighting and different lamps into the kitchen, don't be afraid of original designs and bold combinations.

Lamps for a kitchen open to the living room - which ones to choose?

When considering the choice of lamps for a kitchen open to the living room, you should first of all think of the space in question as a whole. The kitchen, which can be seen from the living room, or the living room visible from the kitchen, is really one space that, although divided into several functional zones, must have the same style, and the lamps must match each other.

Here are some suggestions for lighting a kitchen open to the living room, in the context of both kitchen lamps and lamps for the living room. We suggest which light fixtures to choose, how to put them together and which collections to look at when looking for stylish lamps, with which working in the kitchen, as well as relaxing in the living room open to the kitchen, will be a pure and designer pleasure.

Lamp on ceiling strip plus countertop backlighting

A very versatile way to provide excellent lighting for a kitchen - including one that is open to the living room - is to choose ar multipoint lamp on a ceiling strip (for example, with 3 lampshades) and backlighting of countertops in the form of under-cabinet spotlights or LED strips. Such a combination will provide good illumination of the space regardless of the time of day, great for a kitchen island or a long and narrow kitchen, as well as an interesting and elegant starting point for lighting the dining room, living room and lounge area.

Lamps that come in the version with a ceiling strip are also often accompanied within a single collection by single lamps or lamps on ceiling plates, which are great for the living room or dining room. Repetition of the same design, but in a different configuration, will make the space - especially in small rooms - appear orderly and harmonious. If you like this concept and want a perfect match, check out the lamp collections Lamia, Longis and for a more modern looku lamps from the Roll collection.

Spotlights on rails in the kitchen open to the living room

If you plan to decorate your interior in an industrial, modern or minimalist style, a good idea for lighting a kitchen open to the living room would be to use ae ceiling spotlights nand rails or simple, ceiling-mounted surface-mounted luminaires. Their minimalist, raw, industrial character, blends perfectly with contemporary spaces and does not overwhelm them with its form. At the same time, this is a very good solution if you pan light the living room with a distinctive lamp and are afraid whether the kitchen lighting will not "bite" with its design. However, remember to make sure that the spotlight in the kitchen and the lamp in the living room have an element in common - the same finish color, material used, geometric character, etc.

Bet on the common element

When choosing lamps for a kitchen open to the living room and for the living room, you can also choose an element that will be common to both fixtures and that will become, so to speak, a bridge between these zones. It could be a transparent lampshade motif, industrial austerity with black steel as the main finish material, a shiny gold color, white spherical lampshades or the same shape of the fixture.

Many lamp collections include perfectly matched pendant lamps and plafonds, which can be toldsion in the kitchen and living room respectively (if you like this idea, check out the vero collection of pendant lamps and plafonds and a collection of roll ceiling spotlights and pendant lamps.

Colorful accent vs. lamps in a kitchen open to the living room

You are looking for a lamp for a kitchen open to the living room and want to make a subtle and interesting reference to what is going on in the living room? Use a colorful accent to bind the two zones together. It can be the color of the lampshade or the color of the suspension (textile braid), which will correspond to the color of the chair, decorative pillows, wallpaper or other more or less prominent elements present in the space.

How about... wall sconces?

If you're looking for an interesting way to illuminate your kitchen, bring ambience and accent light into it, think about enhancing your central lighting with matching wall sconces. Wall lamps work especially well in kitchens with an industrial and Scandinavian character - with open shelves - as well as in rustic kitchens. You can hang wall lamps both above the shelves and above the sink, and if you want an elegant decor make sure that the chosen lamps - pendant lamps as well as wall lamps - come from the same collection. An example of a series of lamps that would be perfect for the kitchen (especially in the industrial style), and which includes both ceiling and wall lamps, is the Longis lamp collection - for example, in the gold version as well as nautilius lamp collection.

We hope that after reading this article you already know how to get down to the lighting of the kitchen open to the living room, you have some ideas in your head, and even a few lamps to keep an eye on. Although the lighting of a kitchen open to the living room is a challenge, thanks to the consistency of your choice and the rich collections of lamps that offer fixtures of various types, you can calmly cope with this task.